California Dorks

I couldn't think of a good title so I decided to use the title of a song that I have been loving lately California Dorks


I get so excited when I put in a bead order. I check the mail everyday(something I never do otherwise). Usually they arrive in about a week. The slip that tells me I have beads awaiting me at the post office gets me all hyped off. I can't wait until I get off work to go get them. Pure excitement is all I can call it.

This time was no exception. Awaiting me in the glorious box was 80 thousand worth of beads. New colours from the Nabbi set as well as pretty much every colour from Perler. I wanted to be able to go for a long time without worrying about a colour I needed.

I wanted to share with all of you what it all looked like.
I even had to take two photos just to show you exactly how much came in the mail.



This is the set of Nabbi beads, there are more under it.


These are all of the Perler ones I got.

I must say, the woman I get them from is a packaging genius. That box in the Nabbi set pictures heads 80k worth of beads all in their little bags. I wish I could pack like she could.

I am happy to say that I seem to be out of my beading funk. Despite Pixelgasm still being down, I have managed to find some projects that were fun to do.


There was a reason for this one which has a funny story to it. My boyfriend has a lot of DJ equipment and loves to make songs using Fruity Loops. There is a constant flow of weird beats going through the apartment. He always says that he wants his DJ name to be Papa Large. My big joke was that he was really Papa Smurf. So I made him this.


This week has been a big adventure for me. I am currently working as a preschool teacher. So as a fun thing to put up in the room is a castle I made as we call our room Enchanted Castle. I love this one! It turned out amazing. The ironing was a pain. I have to figure out the best way to work my iron. Next project, I am going to take out all the water.



I love Kirby. Something about a weird cute pink ball that sucks things up. It's such an odd thing if you think about. Yet everyone loves him because he's cute. I guess it proves you could make the weirdest character for a game, as long as it was cute people would love it.(Same with Jigglypuff)

In another post I talked about how I was planning to build a water scene in my bathroom. I am happy to say some of it is currently hanging on the wall and coming along very nicely.


This weekend, I shall relax after my busy week(family parties and work) and plan to do more projects. Until next time!!

I'm officially a dork!

Now, I have mentioned in many posts Pixelgasm, an online forum dedicated to pixel art(Beading,painting,cross-stitch,etc). I just love this place and the people. It's a nice community where we are all willing to help each other. From looking for patterns, to questions and techniques. Anything and everything.
Now Monday I was gone out all day and didn't get to log on. Tuesday after work I tried to get on. Google had other plans. There was some malware that attacked my beloved home. It was driving me nuts. I wanted to go on and check out all the art I had missed the day before. The creator of the forum worked hard for 2 days trying to restore it. Thankfully last night it was back online.
For two days I was constantly clicking the tab I have on Firefox and then realizing it wasn't going to load. Three days without it and I felt very sad. I was bored out of my tree. Not even wanting to bead.
When it came back online, I wanted to jump around like a fool. I was excited. Other members I was chatting to were joining in on the happiness. We were all so glad to see it back up. I am such a dork for being that excited over an online forum.


So this post is to Doc(beloved creator) and everyone at Pixelgasm. Thank you for making it a lovely home that I hate to leave.

Now I leave you with a video that has made me very dorky as well. The background is done with pixel painting.

Back from the dead!

It's been a busy few months with workshops(for work), parties and just general life.
I swear my beading hasn't stopped or at least not entirely. I had felt a little uninspired over the last little while. Now I am getting back into it. It's one of those things I miss and when I start again, I keep thinking why did I stop?

So for your viewing pleasure, here is the things I have been working on.

Now before I show you this piece, there is a back story.
Over at Pixelgasm, there is a challenge up to do Warhol pieces or inspired by him. The four coloured panel one. Now a few nights ago, I woke up at 2am with an idea of this. Not sure where it came from exactly. It was the weirdest thing to awake from my sleep with a beading idea. All day at work, I envisioned what it would look like. So when I got home, I went straight to work. My vision turned out exactly as I had imagined.



I loved Dr.Mario as a kid. We would have tetris/Dr. Mario tournaments in our house, as there was a game for the Super Nintendo that allowed you to do that. It was so much fun growing up. Yelling at the Tv and trying to make combos just to mess the other person up. So this game holds a special place in my heart.

Now I posted the work in process a month ago and I realized that I never showed the final project


Thank you to Riot Patch for giving me the pattern and permission to copy it. It was a fun project to do and I learned a lot about using cross stitching programs to create beaded art. There is always something new to use to further this crazy passion.

My family has now come to expect bead art for presents now. It's something personal for them and I love creating it. For a while now my mom has been asking me to make more lemmings for her wall at her house. She asked for ground for them to walk on.

Now what's really funny is, the set she got a long time ago had black outlines to them while I forgot about it for these little guys. She now says a war is going to happen and the ones she has now are plotting for the arrival.
So basically my mom is going to have a war with beaded lemmings that she can move on her own. I may have to ask her to take pictures of the war for this blog(if anyone wants to see it lol)

Now last year I posted a picture of a Mario Scene I had in my bathroom. When I moved, I didn't put it back up(as I keep forgetting to buy tacks). Yet again no tacks but I am completely re-doing the whole scene.
Now the scene is going to be in two parts. The water will go around the middle of the wall. There will be Mario Fish underneath and Flying Mario enemies above it. It's going to be a time consuming project but I am loving it so far.




I hope you all love these pieces.
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Spring is coming!!

New projects

So in the past week I have done a few projects which I am very excited about.
I hate these beading blocks. It drives me nuts that I have nothing to do.
So without further ado:

I plan on making these into frisge magnets. They didn't take me that long to make either.
The images are from Bistro Recipe from the Gameboy. I found them through random online searches.


In the Inspiration post I talked about a bookmark that I found online. I started working on it yesterday and so far it's been fun. The hardest part was figuring out what the colours of thread were in regards to beads. Lots of google searches and comparing later, I had it all written out.
That part took about an hour and a half. I don't have too much to do luckily.

So this week KoolStuffForKids is having a sale on 6k of black and white beads. 50% off! I ordered 12000 of each. I am very excited to get them as I am running low on white.
Be sure to pick some up if you need them. White and Black are essentials.

Hope everyone is having a good winter's day. It's freezing here but it was sunny which I like.